ReviewTransfusion2018
Addressing gaps in international blood availability and transfusion safety in low- and middle-income countries: a NHLBI workshop.
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47 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 99 citations in OpenAlex.
- Comparison of safety and efficacy of liberal versus restrictive red blood cell transfusion thresholds on the quality of life in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Annals of hematology · 2026Pooled it
- Efficacy of communication interventions for promoting blood donation in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review.Vox sanguinis · 2025Pooled it
- The WOMAN trial: clinical and contextual factors surrounding the deaths of 483 women following post-partum haemorrhage in developing countries.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2020Trial
- Risk factors for blood transfusion in traumatic and postpartum hemorrhage patients: Analysis of the CRASH-2 and WOMAN trials.PloS one · 2020Trial
- Timely geographic access to blood banking facilities: A pan-India modelling study.Transfusion medicine (Oxford, England) · 2026Article
- Thalassaemia.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2026Review
- Geographic variation in blood transfusion among TRICARE beneficiaries.Transfusion · 2026Article
- Impact of shifting blood donation policy from gift to honour model: staggered difference-in-differences analysis in China.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2026Article
- Blood transfusion practices in Africa: advances, barriers, and ways of overcoming the barriers - a narrative review.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2025Review
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- Transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI): Current understanding, challenges, and future directions.Saudi medical journal · 2025Review
- In-hospital stay of anemic patients in the ED with/without transfusion: a single-center propensity-matched study.BMC emergency medicine · 2025Article
- A qualitative study of community perceptions and practices relating to blood donation in Cameroon.BMJ global health · 2025Article
- Analysis of blood donor deferral pattern in Uttar Pradesh, India.Bioinformation · 2025Article
- Bridging the gap: enhancing blood regulatory functions in African contexts through comparative analysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- The Red-cell Transfusion Strategy Dilemma in Critically Ill Patients in ICU: Is Restrictive or Liberal the Answer?Acta informatica medica : AIM : journal of the Society for Medical Informatics of Bosnia & Herzegovina : casopis Drustva za medicinsku informatiku BiH · 2025Review
- Defining blood deserts and access to blood products for 660 million people: a geospatial analysis of eight states in Northern India.BMJ global health · 2024Article
- Innovative blood transfusion strategies to address global blood deserts: a consensus statement from the Blood Delivery via Emerging Strategies for Emergency Remote Transfusion (Blood DESERT) Coalition.The Lancet. Global health · 2024Review
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- Knowledge, attitude, and practice among medical students in gaza strip towards voluntary blood donation: a cross-sectional study.BMC health services research · 2023Article
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Abstract
In April 2017, a workshop sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Division of Blood Diseases and Resources, and the Center for Translation Research and Implementation Science was held to discuss blood availability and transfusion safety in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The purpose of the workshop was to identify research opportunities for implementation science (IS) to improve the availability of safe blood and blood components and transfusion practices in LMICs. IS describes the late stages of the translational research spectrum and studies optimal and sustainable strategies to deliver proven-effective interventions. Regional working groups were formed to focus on opportunities and challenges in East Africa, Central/West Africa, Middle East and North Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, Western Pacific Asia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. The need for an "adequate supply of safe blood" emerged as the major overriding theme. Among the regional working groups, common cross-cutting themes were evident. The majority of research questions, priorities, and strategies fell into the categories of blood availability, blood transfusion safety, appropriate use of blood, quality systems, health economics and budgeting, and training and education in IS. The workshop also brought into focus inadequate country-level data that can be used as the basis for IS initiatives. A mixed approach of needs assessment and targeted interventions with sufficient evidence base to move toward sustainment is an appropriate next step for blood availability and transfusion safety research in LMICs.
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